Heme, a plastid-derived regulator of nuclear gene expression in Chlamydomonas

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 552-567

  Von Gromoff, Erika D ^a   Alawady, Ali ^b   Meinecke, Linda ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^b   Beck, Christoph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

HEME; LYASE; MAGNESIUM CHELATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEME; LYASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 48249108808     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.054650     Document Type: Article

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